Former chief secretary Henry Tang sold off part of his rare wine collection for more than HK$48 million, auction house Christie’s said on Sunday, after a scandal over a wine cellar at his home was partly blamed for his loss last year’s chief executive race.

An information technology organisation whose contract with the government is facing an early end may have been affected by its sister organisation's apparent support of Henry Tang Ying-yen in his failed bid for chief executive, a board member says.

Will Henry Tang Ying-yen go to jail? The former chief secretary recently resurfaced to talk about the issue that torpedoed his bid to become Hong Kong's chief executive and could land him or his wife in prison: the illegally constructed 2,250 sq ft basement discovered at their home in February last year.

The top court ruled yesterday that an attack by Leung Chun-ying on his chief-executive rival Henry Tang Ying-yen over illegal structures at Tang's home could not be taken as a statement that his own home was free of such alterations.

Former chief secretary Henry Tang Ying-yen said yesterday "the devil is in the detail" when it came to teaching national education, saying the most important thing was the use of fair teaching materials.

He said that the national education curriculum row had been a good chance for the government to show it was paying attention to the public voice.

The new government, led by Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying, has attracted some of the most vehement objections and controversies since taking office half a month ago, plunging it into a credibility crisis.